Thursday, August 3, 2017

Pamplona is the
historical capital city of Navarre, in Spain, and of the former Kingdom of
Navarre. The city is famous worldwide
for the running of the bulls during the San Fermín festival, which is held
annually from July 6 to 14. The quickest dash - sprint along the 930-yard (850-meter) cobbled-street
course to the bullring lasted 2 minutes,
13 seconds, the fastest so far.

One bull got out ahead of the pack and charged
through the streets, causing some hair-raising moments as runners tried to stay
in front of it or get out of its way. Revellers
run in front of Jandilla's fighting bulls during the running of the bulls at
the San Fermin Festival, in Pamplona, northern Spain, Tuesday, July 11, 2017. In the runs, hundreds of people test their
agility and bravery to race with six fighting bulls without getting gored. This year, 5 people— four Americans and a Spaniard— have
been gored since the runs started Friday.
The nine-day fiesta was made world famous with Nobel Literature laureate
Ernest Hemingway's 1926 novel "The Sun Also Rises."

In many Cinemas, we
have seen scenes of people eating in hotel, unable to pay the bill, ending up
in menial works including grinding of flour.
People running away without paying bills too have been depicted
comically in many movies. In ‘Vedigundu
Murugesan’ – Vadivelu as ‘alert Arumugam’ made everyone laugh. In one scene, he would enter a restaurant and
keep ordering lot of items, which would make the server, owner and all others
keep watching him. After eating to his like,
he would act as if relaxing and in a thrice, would put his hand on the
switchboard, making it short and with lights going off, would make good his
escape, taking away the money from ‘galla’ too.

A ‘ dine and dash ’
is a form of theft by fraud, in which a patron orders and consumes food and
beverages from a restaurant or similar establishment with the intent not to
pay. The act may involve the customer leaving the restaurant with the intent of
evading payment, or, less commonly, of the patron eating the food and then
stating that they do not have any money
! - now read this newsitem from
DailyMail of date. .

A group of Italians who
fled a restaurant in Pamplona without paying the bill were caught by police and
ordered to settle up. The diners had
ordered 14 house specials and 15 shots racking up a £600 bill on their night
out in the Spanish town, which is in the middle of its famous bull-running
festival. But instead of paying what they owed, the group appeared to draw
inspiration from the annual event - by trying to run from the the bill instead
of the bulls.

A tweeted picture of the
bill showed they had opted for 14 of the special San Fermin menu while one
diner had ordered salmon tartar. They also ordered 15 shots of the local
chupito liqor and a coffee. However, police soon caught up with them and the
diners were marched back to the restaurant and ordered to hand over 620 euros -
as well as a tip.

It is not known whether
they had travelled to the town in Navarra, northern Spain, to take part in the
festival in which people sprint down the narrow streets trying to avoid being
gored by bulls. Meanwhile, a young man was given hospital treatment for a head
injury after taking part in a bull run on Tuesday - though none of the hundreds
of runners who took part in the festival was gored.

The bulls run alongside
six steers, or castrated bulls, chasing people dressed in white with red
neckerchiefs through the streets into the town's bullring. Later in the day
they will be killed in a bullfight. Runners are often injured when they trip up
or barge into each other in the crammed streets of Pamplona. The San Fermin
festival dates back to the Middle Ages.